Summary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: A wickedly perceptive comedy about the life-altering, emotional armor-piercing friendship between a lonely 17-year-old rebel looking for a job and a conservative, middle-aged salesman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2009